The Academy Awards

Best Picture Kisses: Smooches From 'Casablanca' To 'Titanic'

Posted 02.20.2013

The drum roll until The Oscars serves up many a montage, from the ...

Stars Makes The Rounds At Vanities Party

Posted 04.22.2012

The Oscars aren't until Sunday night, but that doesn't mean Hollywood's best and brightest have to wait until then to party. Vanity Fair kicked off Os...

Win Your Oscar Pool With Moviefone's Awards Night Pool Picker: Best Supporting Actress

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 02.22.2012

It's Oscar week here at Moviefone and than can mean only one thing: Awards Night Pool Picker! Here's your chance to let Huffington Post executive ente...

Billy Crystal's Best Oscar Moments: Eight Years In Review

Posted 02.20.2012

With one week left (!) until the 84th Academy Awards, it's all anyone can talk about here at Moviefone. We've spun our Wheel O' Oscar and now it's tim...

Oscars Made Easy: 'Midnight in Paris'

Posted 02.17.2012

"Midnight in Paris" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director (Woody Allen), Best Original Screenplay (Allen), Best Art Direction What's It Abo...

Oscars Made Easy: 'Rango'

Posted 02.17.2012

"Rango" Nominated For: Best Animated Feature What's It About: Johnny Depp voices the titular character, a pet chameleon that gets abandoned in t...

Best Oscar Moments: David Niven Streaker, Woody Allen, Christopher Reeve

Posted 02.20.2013

Part of the requisite countdown to Oscar night is taking a trip down memory lane -- revisiting the moments that supplant any awards won or teary tribu...

Seth Rogen's Oscar Pick: 'I Voted For 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.''

Posted 02.16.2012

Don't try to tell Oscar voter Seth Rogen that "The Artist" is the best picture of the year. "I honestly thought that 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost P...

Oscars Made Easy: 'The Descendants'

Posted 02.15.2012

"The Descendants" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (George Clooney), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing What's It About...

Uggie Skipping the Oscars?

Posted 02.15.2012

In your required Uggie news of the day, Reuters is reporting that the breakout non-human star of "The Artist" will not appear at the 84th annual Acade...

Oscars Made Easy: 'Pina'

Posted 02.14.2012

"Pina" Nominated For: Best Documentary Film What's It About: Director Wim Wenders ("Paris, Texas," "Wings of Desire") tells the story of Pina Ba...

Best Actor: Clooney or Pitt?

John Farr | Posted 05.05.2013
John Farr

One thing this past year confirmed was that these handsome, movie-idol personalities can really act. Too often Pitt and Clooney have been constrained by their leading man status to playing cool protagonists who save the day and get the girl. And they appear to be playing themselves.

Oscars Made Easy: 'Hugo'

Posted 02.15.2012

"Hugo" Nominated For: Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Adapted Screenplay (John Logan), Best Cinematography, Best Original Score...

Short Thoughts on the Oscar-Nominated Short Films

The Huffington Post | Eric Larnick | Posted 02.10.2012

For a subject like short films, brevity is the key. So here's everything you need to know in a nutshell: the Short Film Oscars are broken into three c...

Gary Susman

Amid Outrage Over Best Song Category, Academy May Revamp Nomination Process

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 04.11.2012

If you thought the Academy's Best Original Song screening process -- which allowed only two nominees this year and excluded such usually Oscar-worthy ...

Dustin Hoffman On The Academy Awards: 'It's Boring'

Posted 02.10.2012

Stars: they're just us! Even they think the Oscars are boring. In a new interview with Maxim, two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman says wha...

Celebrate The Movies With New Oscar Banners For 'Annie Hall' And 'Raging Bull'

Posted 02.08.2012

If you aren't excited enough for the 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony later this month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has quite a t...

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Rooney Mara Attend The Academy Awards Nominations Luncheon

Posted 02.06.2012

The only thing better than being nominated for an Academy Award? A free lunch, of course! Monday afternoon in Beverly Hills, this year's Oscar nominee...

Gary Susman

Get To Know Janet McTeer, Oscar Nominee And 'Woman In Black' Star

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 02.03.2012

It has been a good couple of weeks for Janet McTeer. The 50-year-old British star was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in "A...

Meeting Meryl Streep: Jessica Chastain, Melissa McCarthy, Berenice Bejo Freak Out

Posted 02.02.2012

Meryl Streep may be going on 30 years of Oscar frustration, but that doesn't mean her peers treat her like anything other than royalty. Even so mu...

Will the Kodak Theatre Lose the "Kodak?"

Posted 02.01.2012

The Oscar folks have been making noise about relocating from the Kodak Theatre that was built solely to host the Academy Awards. But even if the Oscar...

Tom Cruise Announced As Oscar Presenter

Posted 02.01.2012

He might not be as cool as the cast of "Bridesmaids," but Tom Cruise will still hit the Oscar stage later this month as a presenter. The Academy of...

Who Is the Best Young Actress of Her Generation?

Posted 02.01.2012

Back in January, New York Times scribe Adam Sternberg, using a metric based on Academy Award-nominated performances, including actual acting nominatio...

Can 'The Help' Win Best Picture?

Posted 01.31.2012

For the last month, Oscar season has been dominated by one presence: Uggie the dog "The Artist," the presumed Best Picture frontrunner thanks to a bev...

Gary Susman

Uggie Who? Martin Scorsese Seeks Kudos for 'Hugo' Doberman Star Blackie [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Gary Susman | Posted 03.31.2012

Hollywood do-godders often wring their hands over the persistence of racism or sexism. Now there's a new scourge: breedism. According to Martin Scorse...